An Anonymous Contributor, an original solo show about the shadowy world of academic ghostwriting, is returning to Stage Left Studio (214 W 30th Street, 6th floor) this June before touring to the Edmonton Fringe Festival in Canada in August. Performance dates for Stage Left are this weekend, June 26th, 27th, and 28th at 7:30 pm, while the Fringe in Edmonton takes place on August 13th-23rd. The show is written and performed by Adriana Jones and directed by Patrice Miller.
In the show, Adriana Jones takes on the character of an academic ghostwriter-a woman who has written hundreds of papers, but whose name won't be found on a single one. At turns darkly comic and piercingly vulnerable, An Anonymous Contributor is a richly imagined journey into the morally ambiguous world of an academic ghostwriter.
The play brings a fresh perspective to the national conversation about student loan debt and the proliferation of unpaid internships, while also exposing audiences to a world that is rarely portrayed on stage.
The show is being produced at Stage Left as a co-production between Cheryl King Productions and Apperception Productions, the latter of which is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Apperception is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to fund the international premiere of the show in Canada, which can be found here. To learn more about Apperception, visit their Fractured Atlas page.
Tickets for the show at Stage Left are 22 dollars in advance and 25 dollars at the door, with discounts available for students and seniors (with valid ID.) Students should use code "student" when purchasing in advance and seniors should use code "senior". Advance tickets can be purchased online at the Stage Left website.
Adriana Jones (Writer/Performer) is an actress, singer, and writer based in NYC. She is an avid solo performer, and has performed her two solo shows Vivien On The Rocks and An Anonymous Contributor at Theater Row, the Women at Work Festival, and several works in progress forums. Other recent credits include the North American premiere of Atthis at The Kitchen, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Boomerang Theater Company, the world premiere of The Temple at The Brick, and The One Minute Play Festival at 59E59. Recent film and web projects include the pilot for The Grey Matter Archives. the upcoming indie drama Parting Gifts, and the comedic shorts Just Like the Movies and Unpaid Interns (both of which she also wrote). She is a proud alumna of the BFA Theater program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA and LAByrinth Theater Company's Intensive Ensemble.
Patrice Miller (Director) is a director, choreographer, writer and social scientist in training based in New York City. Her work has been presented at 3-Legged Dog, La MaMa Etc, Theater Row, Prelude/CUNY Graduate Center, The Brooklyn Museum, NYCFashion Week, HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick, FRINGENYC, 571 Projects gallery and the 68th Street subway stop. Her work is often multidisciplinary, and includes collaborations with composers, visual artists, environmentalists, economists, and social scientists. She is the choreographer for Untitled Theater Company #61, with whom she most recently worked on "Dead Cat Bounce" + more for Money Lab. Some other recent and favorite credits include: In Pieces, a cycle of mini-dance dramas based on the work of Marion Fayolle; Sarah Jane Johnson's Devil in a Box; The Pig, or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for a Pig; ELE??TOR; Decompression. She is also a poet, and paleontology enthusiast.
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